For U.S. Airlines,
Hurricane Could Be
Latest Blow

Amid the long-term wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina could be the U.S. airline industry.

Katrina already has caused scores of cancellations and delays. But a much more dire threat to airlines -- particularly those already in or teetering on the verge of bankruptcy -- are the fuel-price increases likely to result from the hurricane knocking out a big chunk of the nation's jet-fuel refining capacity. Katrina knocked out refineries that...